The GC Digital Fellows is a collective of doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center who promote the critical, experimental, and conscientious integration of technology into the research, teaching, and service work of students, faculty, and staff. https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mmccwi6iec22Wishing you all a restful summer and plenty of time to tinker with digital tools and platforms. DF Chris Colon encourages us to explore digital archiving with a quickstart guide to Omeka on this week's Tagging the Tower blog post. Read "Using Omeka" at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/05/19/using-omeka/20 May 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmccwi6iec22https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mlltx74h5227DF Maggie Schreiner shares the highlights of “Let's Archive It!” a Digital Fellows hosted event in collaboration with archivists from across CUNY. Read "Let’s Archive It! Event Recap" on our Tagging the Tower blog post at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/05/08/lets-archive-it-event-recap/11 May 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlltx74h5227https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mksv4hul7k2aDF Tuka Al-Sahlani gives us a quick overview of what is happening at the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. Read "Update from the Digital Scholarship Lab: Visit our Data Lab" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog post at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/05/01/the-data-lab-at-the-digital-scholarship-lab/01 May 2026 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksv4hul7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mkpt475vy22yToday @2pm, join the digital fellows for the Data Lab: Visualizations discussion. Bring your data and meet us in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the GC in Rm 7414. Please RSVP at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/data-lab-visualizations/. See you soon!30 Apr 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpt475vy22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mkaxvskskk2sDF Anna Corbett shares ways to retool Tableau for scholarly use. Read "Breaking Tableau Out of the Boardroom" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog post at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/04/24/breaking-tableau-out-of-the-boardroom/24 Apr 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkaxvskskk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mjpoiue3ts2iNicole Walker built an AI tool to help students realize the value of their voices in a composition course. Read "Vibe Coding My Way Out of a Teaching Problem" on this week’s Tagging the Tower blog post at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/04/17/vibe-coding-my-way-out-of-a-teaching-problem/17 Apr 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpoiue3ts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mj5xzqfwm22kDF Eunah Cho reveals the risk of the capability illusion brought on by the rampant use of AI. Read " When AI Makes Us More Active, We Risk Being Less Wise" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/04/10/when-ai-makes-us-more-active-we-risk-being-less-wise/10 Apr 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5xzqfwm22khttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mi2qex7fcs2jWhat questions do we need to ask to avoid techno-pessimism as we evolve with AI? DF Meha Gupta writes, "There is a question more important than ‘Does AI have consciousness?’” Read her theses on this week’s Tagging the Tower blog at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/27/there-is-a-question-more-important-than-does-ai-have-consciousness/27 Mar 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2qex7fcs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mhqm3tt3ec2iGC community, spend your day with us, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 24th! At 10am, join us for our Open Data Week event, "How Maps Speak: A Mapping Commons Hackathon". Then, at 12pm, join us for our workshop, "Introduction to Omeka". RSVP to both events at: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/2026-03-24/23 Mar 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqm3tt3ec2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mhe6h6b6xk2pGC community, our workshop, "LLM-Assisted Coding" will be tomorrow, March 19 at 12pm! Remember to RSVP at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/llm-assisted-coding/18 Mar 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe6h6b6xk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mh6qxk4rvk2jGC community, remember to sign up for tomorrow's workshop. Attend "Queer DH: Key Projects and Concepts" at 12pm. RSVP here https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/queer-dh-key-projects-and-concepts/16 Mar 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6qxk4rvk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mgxdektntc2mDF Parisa Setayesh (@psetayesh.bsky.social) helps us discern whether the outputs we receive from using AI tools are "gold, fool’s gold, or just a rock." Read "AI Literacy for Research: Why Operational Fluency Is Not Enough" on Tagging the Tower at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/13/ai-literacy-for-research-why-operational-fluency-is-not-enough/13 Mar 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxdektntc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mgmwdkp6422iGC community, see you today at noon "Making Beautiful Maps with QGIS and Tableau" at noon. RSVP here https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/making-beautiful-maps-with-qgis-and-tableau/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Mar 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmwdkp6422ihttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mgg3cko7ps2fDF Pranav Chinmay writes a guide to using Matplotlab for this week's Tagging the Tower blog post. Read "An Introduction to Matplotlib" at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/06/an-introduction-to-matplotlib/06 Mar 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgg3cko7ps2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mgfjckfcfk2rGC community, join us today at 2pm at the Data Lab, an open, interdisciplinary space designed to help you think through challenges and triumphs of wrangling data from collection to cleaning to privacy to sharing. For more details and to register, go to https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/data-lab-wrangle-your-data/06 Mar 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfjckfcfk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mgdm2uzfw22gGC Community, ready to stylize your spatial data? Attend our "Making Beautiful Maps with QGIS and Tableau" workshop on Monday, March 9th at 12pm. RSVP at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/making-beautiful-maps-with-qgis-and-tableau/05 Mar 2026 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdm2uzfw22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mfrgvccskc2gGC Community, register for todays' workshop by 12pm to learn how to make "Slides with LaTex"! RSVP by gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/26 Feb 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrgvccskc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mfk545vhv22xWhat does AI literacy look like in our education, policymaking, society, and futures? Ian G. Williams, LMSW @igraywill.bsky.social reflects on the term AI literacy and its impact and shares his "Thoughts on Situating AI Literacy" on Tagging the Tower at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/20/thoughts-on-situating-ai-literacy/23 Feb 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfk545vhv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mf5prvpmgs2cGC community, register for tomorrow's workshop "Text Analysis for Right to Left Languages" and engage with tools for your multilingual DH scholarship. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/18 Feb 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5prvpmgs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mf3cdormgk2cGC community, register to attend tomorrow's workshop "AI Tools for Research: Understanding AI Systems in Research Contexts" to practice ethical and critical AI usage. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/list/17 Feb 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3cdormgk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3meqzoikshk2uJonah Brucker-Cohen examines how A.I. shapes human behavior, memory, and artistic practice on this week's Tagging the Tower blog. Read "A.I. Meets Critical Media Art" at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/13/a-i-meets-critical-media-art/13 Feb 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqzoikshk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mej5vz7mus2nGC community, GCDI workshops beging today! RSVP for "Basic Audio Editing with Audacity" now at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-audio-editing-with-audacity-3/10 Feb 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mej5vz7mus2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3megxyflojk2cWebsites and tenant rights? Read "Why Should You Make a Website For Your Tenants’ Association?" by Sam O'Hana on our Tagging the Tower blog here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/06/why-should-you-make-a-website-for-your-tenants-association/09 Feb 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3megxyflojk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3me2ht2ai7s2tSpring '26 workshops begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, 26! Learn how to edit and clean audio files with Audacity! RSVP at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-audio-editing-with-audacity-3/04 Feb 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2ht2ai7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mdxw6dwb4s2aGC community, welcome to Spring '26. Please read this week's blog to learn about our spring workshops, grant opportunities, and how best to stay connected with us! Read our welcome blog on Tagging the Tower here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/02/welcome-to-spring26/03 Feb 2026 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxw6dwb4s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3mabxsxnp5c2jDF Pranav Chinmay wraps up the Fall '25 semester with a NetworkX tutorial. Read "Introduction to Python’s NetworkX" on Tagging the Tower at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/12/12/introduction-to-pythons-networkx/18 Dec 2025 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabxsxnp5c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3m7ilpbguh22xToday is the day! Remember to submit your application for GCDRI '26 by midnight. Go to www.cuny.is/dri2026! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Dec 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ilpbguh22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3m7b74je6l22gWinter break calls for fuzzy socks, hot chocolate, and finding your new favorite digital tool! DF Meha Gupta suggests several tools in "Digital Tools to Experiment with this Winter" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/12/05/digital-tools-to-experiment-with-this-winter/05 Dec 2025 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7b74je6l22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3m76lnnkaic2iRemember to RSVP for the GCDRI '26 virtual information session today at 4pm (during our weekly drop-in hour)! gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Dec 2025 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m76lnnkaic2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalfellows.bsky.social/post/3m73mky3c7c2sThe GCDRI returns for its 10th year in January 2026! Attend the virtual information session during our drop-in hours tomorrow, Thursday, 12/4 at 4pm to learn about course offerings, chat with the instructors, and prepare to submit your application. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/03 Dec 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:t4rcakkaeqsetdbn4g2tykbr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73mky3c7c2s